I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.